- Title:
- Service Medal of the Order of St John
- Object name(s):
- Medals
- Brief description:
- A round, silver medal. The obverse depicts the effigy of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria derived from a bust carved by her daughter, The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll with a circumscription. The reverse depicts, between sprigs of St John’s Wort, five circles showing, the Imperial Crown, the Royal Arms, the Arms of The Prince of Wales who was the first Grand Prior under the Royal Charter of 1888, the Crest of that Prince of Wales and the Arms of the Order as they were immediately prior to 1926, with a circumscription. The ribbon has three black and two white stripes of equal width. The medal is suspended from a straight bar fixed suspension on an ornate foot fitting positioned at 12 0'clock. It is worn with the bright plated steel brooch with soldered joint and catch on the top reverse of the ribbon.
- Collection:
- Museum of the Order of St John
- Associated organisation:
- The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (1999-present)
- Credit line:
- Transfer from St John International, 2019
- Dimension:
- Height x width: 88 x 41mm Diameter: 38mm
- Material:
- 9/10 gilding metal, plated in silver, struck, with a nylon ribbon
- Object name:
- Medals
- Object number:
- 2019.15.2
- Object production date:
- 2019
- Object production date:
- 2020 -
- Object production date:
- 2022 -
- Object production place:
- Birmingham
- Object production place:
- England
- Physical description:
- A round, silver medal. The obverse depicts the effigy of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria derived from a bust carved by her daughter, The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll with a circumscription. The reverse depicts, between sprigs of St John’s Wort, five circles showing, the Imperial Crown, the Royal Arms, the Arms of The Prince of Wales who was the first Grand Prior under the Royal Charter of 1888, the Crest of that Prince of Wales and the Arms of the Order as they were immediately prior to 1926, with a circumscription. The ribbon has three black and two white stripes of equal width. The medal is suspended from a straight bar fixed suspension on an ornate foot fitting positioned at 12 0'clock. It is worn with the bright plated steel brooch with soldered joint and catch on the top reverse of the ribbon.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/345f9d1d-1292-34ab-beba-d4965026eb90, Museum of the Order of St John, CC BY-NC
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